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What New Bronx Apartment Building Will Have Solar Panels & Vegetable Gardens?

Via Verde is a proposed 18-story, 202-unit, working-class apartment complex in the Melrose section of the Bronx that won New York City’s first juried design competition for affordable and sustainable housing. The 201-unit apartment complex going up in the South Bronx will feature green roofs, a series of gardens in which residents can plant vegetables, solar panels and a rainwater-retention system.

The current site, at 740 Brook Avenue, on the northeast corner of Brook Avenue and East 158th Street, is a former 1.5-acre former brownfield site owned by the City of New York.

The proposed project would also include an outdoor amphitheater, apartments designed for breezes, a fitness center, wiring for Internet access, “live-work units” for people who work at home, stoops with photovoltaic canopies, even a Christmas tree farm. The co-ops would be for households making no more than 130 percent of the median income for the city, or roughly $70,000 for a family of four.

Hat Tips: NY Post, PlanNYC

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